Daily Readings for Friday 17th November 2023

Prayer
-Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings.
-Pray the Lord would supply the needs of those in the congregation at Westminster and guide us as we help those destitute and suffering. Especially those we have met in the pandemic. (Numbers 6.24-26.)

Church Services
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. 

Daily Reading
Preface 9) - Concerning the original registers of the genealogies of Israel and Judah. The distribution of those who returned to their possessions after the captivity. The Israelites who inhabited Jerusalem on their return; and the priests, and Levites who resided there, attending upon their several charges. The stock of Saul and Jonathan.
Preface 10) - Saul's overthrow and death. The Philistines triumph. The kindness shewn by the men of Jabesh-gilead toward Saul and his sons. Saul's sin; for which the kingdom was translated from him to David.
1 Chronicles 9-10
Preface - An exhortation to patience and constancy enforced by the example of Christ. The benefit of God's chastisements. Exhortation to peace and holiness. The dispensation of the law compared with the privileges of the gospel. The danger of refusing the word from heaven.
Hebrews 12

Daily Light - Morning
Thy thoughts are very deep.

We...do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. - That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! - My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. - Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Ps. 92.5; Col. 1.9; Eph. 3.17-19
Ro. 11.33; Isa. 55.8-9; Ps. 40.5

Daily Light - Evening
Whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.

They that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. - They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. - He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.

To him that soweth righteousness shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that witholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. - He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
Ga. 6.7; Job 4.8; Hos. 8.7; Ga. 6.8
Pro. 11.18; Ga. 6.8-10
Pro. 11.24-25; 2 Co. 9.6

A Puritans Catechism
Q58 - What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
A - The seventh commandment forbids all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.

The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
Of The Holy Scriptures
Chapter 3 - Paragraph 4
These angels and men thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.   10)
10)  2 Tim. 2:19; John 13:18

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The believer's self watch
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. - 1 Timothy 4 v 16
You own soul is your first and greatest care. You know a sound body alone can work with power; much more a healthy soul. Keep a clear conscience, through the blood of the Lamb. Keep up close communion with God. Study likeness to Him in all things.